The Lotus Evija is off to a great start, recording double-digit bookings with most of the early allocations snapped up by customers in the United States. Lotus said all-new electric hypercar, which recently made its public debut at the Monterey Car Week at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, received plaudits from many distinguished individuals, including Jay Leno.
Company CEO Phil Popham said: “This is exactly the start we hoped for. Evija is an outstanding and exceptional car – designed and engineered to put Lotus back on the map as the innovator and technical leader that it is. Many orders are now taken, giving us great confidence to hit our planned volume as we enter production next year.”
Dubbed as the technical tour de force, the Lotus Evija – pronounced ‘E-vi-ya’ – is powered by four extremely compact single-speed, helical gear ground planetary gearboxes that measure 100 mm in depth. Each gearbox comes packaged with the e-motor and inverter as a single cylindrical Electrical Drive Unit, with Lotus targeting an output of 500 PS per e-motor.
A simple math puts the total system output at 2,000 PS, while torque is said to be around 1,700 Nm. With that, the Evija is said to be the world’s most powerful production road car, with a 0-100 km/h sprint time achieved in under three seconds, 100-200 km/h in less than three seconds, and 200-300 km/h in less than four seconds. In fact, Lotus says it takes less than nine seconds for the Evija to reach 300 km/h, which is better than any other direct competitor.
A 2,000 kW (70 kWh) lithium-ion battery resides in the middle of the lightweight carbon-fibre monocoque tub (129 kg), offering significant advantages in terms of styling, aerodynamics, packaging, weight distribution, occupant comfort and dynamic handling. The battery is the lightest, most energy dense, electric power package ever fitted to a road car.
Speaking of which, the battery offers a zero-emissions driving range of 400 km (based on WLTP cycle), and can be charged via an 800 kW ultra-fast charging system. When plugged in to said charger (the CCS Type 2 charging socket is hidden behind a vented flap at the rear of the car), it takes just nine minutes to fully recharge the battery.
The Lotus Evija, also known as the Type 130, is the company’s first completely new car (and first Lotus hypercar) to be launched under the stewardship of Geely, and production is limited to 130 examples globally. All units can be further personalised, and each of them will be hand-built in Hethel, with prices starting from £1.7 million (RM8.7 million). Interested parties will have to fork out a deposit of £250,000 (RM1.28 million) to secure a production slot.
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We would likely see in the future,one just need to purchase a pair of power pack, drop down and has the options to choose 100hp,500hp, 1000hp etc.
That 2,000 kW (70 kWh) lithium-ion battery.
Many can barely afford, let alone the car itself
They really back to life and better than before after being purchased and administered by their new owner
That name remind of Ouija board…
-2000PS = 1470kW
-70kWh(battery capacity)/1470kw=0.0476h
-0.0476h×3600=171.43s
If the driver uses the full power of the car, the battery is empty after 171.43 seconds. I guess it’s enough for a few 400m drag races, but not more…
They are definitely going to fully use it’s capacity when they try to gun it for the Nurburgring and thats more than 16km long so……………………
Well, there are multiplication factors from the gearboxes. Besides no matter how fast you run, you still need to brake (regenerative braking) on the ‘ring or even at the dragstrip.
Even a mind numbing pace of 6mins is 360seconds which they plan to complete at one charge.
Hell, come to think of it, even my 250kW turbo 4 empties its 50L tank in 30 mins at full chat. And this makes 6 times more power.
Nothing is economical when run to the max.
Proton had Lotus for a long time and look what Lotus produced under Proton’s leadership. Thank goodness Proton is now under Geely and they mean business.
No doubt the rear aero “holes” is fantastic and functional, but the design could be much better.
It’s just lack of the “sexy” factor of a super-exotic car.